Quoting Eric Penne <epenne@yahoo.com>:

> So what exactly do you need?

Need:
 Case, Mother board, Processor, Memory

Like 
> CD-RW
> NIC
> Video Card
> Floppy?
> 
> With a budget of $400.

Is the $400 reasonable?

> Looks like you could go with a P4 setup.  Mobo w/built in video and
> NIC.  Lots of high bandwidth memory.  Maybe some software RAID for
> improving disk performance.

This sounds good.    Our hunch, from the current box, is that it's RAM and CPU
bound.   The drives are IDE.   

What's a good way to measure if a linux box is disk bound?   Is there something
better than vmstat and friends?
 
Thanks! -Matt

